Where will Jiaozhou Sugar Ball Club be in 2023?

In 2023, Jiaozhou Sugar Ball Club was located in Li Fuan Commercial Pedestrian Street.

The Sugar Ball Club lasts for seven days, and the maximum number of participants can reach nearly one million. Founded in the Ming Dynasty, it has a history of more than 500 years. This is a Taoist temple. There are two singing halls in the temple, the main hall is dedicated to Guanyin's mother, the south hall is dedicated to Bigan and Guan Yu, and the left and right halls are dedicated to the dragon king and the old gentleman. The ancient Haiyun Temple belonged to the lower house of the Taiqing Palace in Laoshan, and three people were stationed in Daotu for many years. Hai Yunan's name comes from an old legend. It is said that one day more than 500 years ago, a huge log floated in the sea, carrying a family.

After people rescued them ashore, they didn't know that their fishing boat had an accident in the sea. Thanks to this wood, the whole family survived. The local people thought it was God's blessing, so they built a temple with this log. Because the vicinity of the temple is a place where cranes live in groups, it is foggy all the year round. According to the implication that the sea is the dragon boundary and the cloud is the hometown of cranes, the temple is named Haiyun Temple, and the street in front of the temple is Haiyun Street. The first spring tide day every year, that is, the 16th day of the first month, is the opening day of the temple.

The custom of sugar ball club

Haiyun 'an Sugar Ball Club has become an indispensable traditional cultural feast for Qingdao citizens during the Spring Festival. Since the resumption of the Sugar Ball Club, Huangdao farmers' paper-cutting and Jiaonan farmers' New Year pictures have been held in Qingdao, and Weifang Yangjiabu, Tianjin Yangliuqing woodcut New Year pictures, Suzhou Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures and Shaanxi Baoji folk art works have been invited to be exhibited in Qingdao.

At the same time, more than 30 national folk arts and crafts masters, including Chinese New Year picture Wang Luoshu, painted clay sculpture master couple, paper-cut artist Fan Xiaomei, China No.1 Weaver, China Brown Weaver Wang, Tianjin Clay Fighter Zhang, Beijing male prostitute Shuang Qixiang, dough sculpture master and paper-cut master Wei Wene, were invited to perform stunts at the sugar ball meeting.